Posted on 01/27/2019 3:46:36 PM PST by Olog-hai
I’m thinking it must have been 78/79 when me and some buddies went up to the family cabin near Duluth for some ice fishing. We were just kids, so didn’t pay no mind of the forecast. I’m not sure what our parents were thinking though, letting us go.
It got down to -44 degrees. No insulation in the cabin at that - time just planks on the walls and floor. Even sitting around the pot-belly stove rattling with a roaring fire it was cold 5 feet away. Wake up in the morning and the frost from our breathing covered everything!
I’m half Finnish and have no desire to visit my mother country.
Walking from the parking lot to church this morning I asked my husband why we live here.
January and February are tough; there’s not enough vitamin D on the shelves to get me through them.
Warmest winter ever™®© strikes again.
During the intense cold of January 1977, the continental USA had cloud cover for the entire month.
We waited for the rest of the joke, when Erkki (pronounced Err-Key) finished with, "It's because of the warming effect of the Gulf Stream". :-/
He also advised us that many more Finns speak Swedish than Swedes speak Finnish. I'd already read that Finnish is linguistically linked to the Hungarian language.
Not much of a story there, they don’t even try to tell us when the record was set, and I have no doubt there where much colder winters back when no one had a thermometer stuck up, er, in the air or anywhere.
My Grandfather was a Finnish tailor for the Russian Tsar’s army. He came to the US just prior to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Coldest of the year.
I always thought it would have been cool to be born and grow up in Finland. I like cross-country skiing and shooting and all the stuff that I like to do.
We need more jets in the air, cars on the roads and Liberals opening their mouths to help Global warming...
They hit that sweet spot where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet. Good work, Finland!
Cold here in Florida...rainy and it was about 60 today...
“”Which is pretty convenient since the Arctic Circle goes through northern Finland””
A priceless comment - love it!
I said ENGLAND!
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